Improvement in bale-ties



\ J. P. RADLEY.

BALB-TIE. N0,169,9z`o Patented 11017.16, 1875.

N,PETERS, F'HQII'WLITHOGRAFHERI WASHINGTON, D CA 'UNITED STATES PATENT OEEroE.

JOHN P. RADLEY, OEQALBANY, NEw YORK.

IM PROVEM EN' IN BALE-TIES.

Specitieationforming part ofLetters Patent No. 169,920, dated November 16, 1875; application iiled OctoberE 14, 1875.'

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN P. RADLEY, of the city and county of Albany, State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Bale-Ties; and I do hereby'declare that the following is a description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l represents a perspective View ot" the tie when the ends are connected. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the saine when disconnected. VFig. 3 is an end view of the button end of the tie.A Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the button when detached from the wire. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the several parts, with the detachable loop shown disconnected, and in its original form, before strain has been exerted on the same. l

This invention is an improvement on a baletie previously invented by myself, and lis intended to obviate the necessity of bending up the grasping end of the button-loop; and consists in the combination, with the graspingloop, of a button having upper and lower projecting lips, with a double or duplex recessed shank or neck intermediate between said projectinglips, and separated by projecting points, whereby the button will be held from shifting, and also permit of its engaging with the detachable loop.

The object of this invention is to form a tie in which the strain exerted on the ends will be evenly borne by both loops engaging with the button in straight lines of direction, and the button be preserved from shifting in its grasping-loop, to permit the detachable loop being readily dropped into its place below the `upper projecting lips of the button.

To enable others skilled in the art l to make and use my invention, l will proceed to describe it in reference to the drawings, and the letters l of reference marked thereon, the same letters E, which I denominate the grasping-loop, formed forward of the said twist. The said grasping-loop is intended to grasp and securely hold the button F, which is to engage with the detachable loop D, made with the opposite end of the tie. The button F consists of a metal piece punched from a piece ot' band-iron, having upper projecting lips a a, and lower projecting lips c c, and a duplex or double recess or notches, as z .fr e, intervening between lips a and o, and forming a double shankor neck, in which the notches a* z are separated by the projection c, so that each portionthe upper projecting lips 'and the lower onesmay be made to have each their own shank or neck for engagement with a loop. rlhe detachable loop D is made with the form shown in Fig. 5, in which the space between the sides sand s is broader than at the ends of the loop, so as to readily receive the extension of the button having the lprojecting lips-V a a at dotted line l, while the contracted end may be received by the recessed shank or neck i @c o0, and held by the said projecting lips from being' slipped out of its space from beneath the said lips.l When the elastic force of the compressed bale is exerted on the tie the strain exerted on the detachable loop will cause the sides s s to become contracted at dotted line l, and be so drawn as to assume the positions of dotted lines s s in Fig. 5, in which the space between the sides of the said loop will be rendered so narrow as to prevent the lips a a from possibly passing through.

Being thus constructed the said button may be securely held by the grasping-loop E from shifting, as the projection c c securely maintains the said loop from being slipped up to the upper projecting lips a, While the lower lips c prevent the button being drawn out 4of the grasping-loop, andthe detachable loop may be readily made to engage with the said button, and be received in the notches w of the said button, and above the grasping-loop.

By this form of button I am enabled to dispense with the bent form of theend of the W grasping-loop, as employed in my former invention, While at the same time the strain of the detachable loop is transferred from the said bent-up form of loop before employed directly to the neck of the button, and. the butvthe compressed bale is exerted.

ton is made to endure the entire strain from the loops, which draw in right lines of direction from the button when the elastic force of By the peculiar form of the detachable loop the button is readily received, and the sides are rendered capable "of contracting when the strain of the elastic bale is exerted, so as to cause the space between the same to become so narrow, andprevent the lips a a of the button from drawing out from said loop.

Having described my invention, What I claim, and desire to. secure by Letters Patent, is-

The button F, constructed of m alleable metal, with projecting lips a a and c c, separated by a double or duplex shank or neck, x z, having projections o v between the recess of said duplex shank or neck, in combination With the grasping-loop E, permanently secured to the said button, and the detachable loop D, capable of receiving the lip end a of said button at a point remote from the end of said detachable loop, substantially as described.

' JOHN P. RADLEY. Witnesses:

JosEPH WHEELooK, Jr., ALEX. SELKIRK. 

